Saint-Saens: Ascanio Ballet & Overtures / Märkl, Malmö Symphony

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
November 22, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      SAINT-SAENS, CAMILLE
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Malmo Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Markl
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 22, 2019
    • UPC
      747313403370
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8574033
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Divertissement No. 1: Introduction: Entrée du Maître des Jeux

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Malmö Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Jun Märkl

    2. Divertissement No. 2: Danse ancienne: Vénus, Junon et Pallas

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Malmö Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Jun Märkl

    3. Divertissement No. 3: Gavotte: Diane, Dryades et Naïades

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Malmö Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Jun Märkl

    4. Divertissement No. 4: Bacchanale: Bacchus et les Bacchantes

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Malmö Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Jun Märkl

    5. Divertissement No. 5: Apparition Phœbus, d'Apollon et les neuf Muses

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Malmö Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Jun Märkl

    6. Divertissement No. 6: Phœbus prenant sa lyre, évoque l'Amour

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Malmö Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Jun Märkl

    7. Divertissement No. 7: L'Amour fait apparaître Psyché

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Malmö Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Jun Märkl

    8. Divertissement No. 8: Ensemble de Phœbus, Diane, Erigone, Nicœa et Bacchus avec les Muses, les Nymphes et les Bacchantes

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Malmö Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Jun Märkl

    9. Divertissement No. 9: Variation de l'Amour, "Variation pour la Flûte"

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Malmö Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Jun Märkl

    10. Divertissement No. 10: Le Dragon des Hespérides apporte la pomme d'or

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Malmö Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Jun Märkl

    11. Divertissement No. 11: Final: Valse: Les Déesses, Bacchantes, Naïades et Dryades

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Malmö Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Jun Märkl

    12. Les Barbares: Prologue

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Malmö Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Jun Märkl

    13. Jota aragonese, Op. 64

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Malmö Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Jun Märkl

    14. Andromaque, Act IV: Prélude

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Malmö Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Jun Märkl

    15. Andromaque: Overture

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Malmö Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Jun Märkl

    16. La princesse jaune, Op. 30: Overture

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Malmö Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Jun Märkl

    17. Ouverture d'un Opéra-Comique inachevé

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Malmö Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Jun Märkl

    18. Divertissement No. 7: L'amour fait apparaître Psyché

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Malmö Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Jun Märkl

    19. Divertissement No. 9: Variation de l'Amour, "Variation pour la Flûte"

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Malmö Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Jun Märkl


Saint-Saëns’ operatic works contain instrumental music of vivacity and charm but have been undeservedly overlooked. Ascanio contains a substantial and elaborate divertissement that fellow composer Reynaldo Hahn termed ‘the entire Renaissance in a few pages’. Les Barbares, a tale of conquest and revenge, includes a vivid Prologue and joyful ballet, while La Princesse jaune with its pentatonic writing, and La Jota aragonese laced with Spanish vitality, show the composer at his most generously carefree. Jun Markl is a highly-respected interpreter of core Germanic repertoire and has become known for his refined and idiomatic explorations of the French Impressionists. His long-standing relationships with the state operas of Vienna, Berlin and Munich, the Semperoper Dresden and the Metropolitan Opera have been complemented by his music directorships of the Orchestre National de Lyon and the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra. In recognition of his achievements in Lyon, he was honoured in 2012 with the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Märkl has an extensive discography – among the over 50 albums he has recorded are the complete Schumann symphonies, works by Mendelssohn and Wagner, Ravel, Messiaen, and a highly-acclaimed Debussy set with the Orchestre National de Lyon. He is currently working on a cycle of works by Saint-Saëns and Hosokawa.

REVIEW:

Of Camille Saint-Saens's eleven operas only one, Samson et Dalila, still enjoys a place in the international repertoire. That was premiered in 1877, three years before Ascanio. That opera's thirty-minute ballet suite contains much that is pleasingly tuneful and suitably pictorial. The Les Barbares Prologue included here has the length and content of a movement from a very serious symphony. There is still more more music here, and all of it is played with the high quality of performance we have come to expect from the Malmo orchestra.

– David's Review Corner (David Denton)